Edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996. LC call number: Z1209.2.U5 L53 1996.
The 340-page, richly illustrated book, which is the definitive research guide for the study of Native American history and culture at the Library, is designed to orient researchers to important collections and procedures in nine Library divisions. An entire chapter devoted to the Prints & Photographs Division describes important pictorial collections and details how to access its holdings. Available online via HathiTrust: External link External

Historian William H. Goetzmann offers social commentary on about one hundred fifty images of Native Americans from the Prints & Photographs Division, most of which were taken by turn-of-the-century commercial photographers. Investigating the photographers themselves, Goetzmann questions how their perceptions of American Indians, as well as what was marketable, influenced the visual records they made.

"This book tells the story of ways in which photography was used to picture North American Indians prior to the first World War. A unique additional feature is the list of over two hundred individual photographers and photographic studios known to have played active roles in photographing Indians in their studios and/or in the field during this period [from the 1840s]." p. 9

Curtis spent nearly thirty years compiling twenty volumes and twenty portfolios and text describing indigenous North Americans from the Plains, the Central Plateau, the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, California, and Alaska. More than eighty tribes are pictured in nearly every facet of native life, including portraits, dwellings, ceremonies, domestic activities, hunting, fishing, and battle. Northwest University makes available a digitized version of the publication. The 1970 reprint of this work, in which copy negative (reproduction) numbers are noted, is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collection Division has an original first edition.

Multi-volume set intended to give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America. The illustrations included in the Handbook are geographically wide-ranging, and come from the collections of a variety of organizations and institutions. A small proportion of represented images come from the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division, and other Library of Congress divisions.